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Monday, November 5, 2012

Turin and the cities of Piedmont

Panorama of Turin

Piedmont has only one major city, Turin, and other
five provincial capitals of smaller size:
Alexandria (includes common and 477 190 thousand inhabitants
many), Asti (120, 219 000 inhab.), Cuneo (250
municipalities, 547 000 inhab.), Novara (165 municipalities, 547 000
inhab.), Vercelli (169 municipalities, 403 000 inhab.).
The first future inhabitants of the torinese territory were the tribes
ligurians of Taurinii. The Romans founded after a city that was called Augusta Taurinorum
(29 BC) and then Turin. Destroyed in 69 ad by a
fire, it will undergo other destructions in sec. IV and V.
Then under the Dominion of various invaders (Byzantine, Lombard
bardi); until, after being a free comune, passed
in 1280 under the Dominion of the Savoys. In The Risorgimento
Turin was, thanks to Vittorio Emanuele II and Cavour,
the Center from which began the political unification of Italy.
In our century, Turin became the capital city
of the automobile. Today Fiat is the most important industry not only in Italy, but on the all Europa.
Turin boasts splendid monuments which recall
its long history. Among the many: the Roman theater, the
Porta Palatina, the remnants of the Porta Praetoria, Castle,
the Royal Palace, Palazzo dell'Accademia delle Scienze, the Mole Antonelliana (167.50 m) built in 1863-88
by architect Antonelli.
The other provinces of
Piedmont have considerable importance and historic
and economic and artistic.
Novara, for example, was already
in Roman times, when it had the name
Nova air. Ivrea, not far from Turin, is home to the
more important for national industry
Office and electronic equipment: the Olivetti.
After the
1955, Piedmont, and especially Turin, have enthusiastically
to a very strong immigration of southerners, attracted
from the abundance of jobs offered by Industrialization.